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For someone who teaches mathematics, poetry comes easy. There are so many aspects about myself that are unknown even to me. Poetry is way to explore myself. Where it will lead me, I don't know. I don't want to know. I thrive on the unknown.

Friday, November 22, 2013

Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires."I'll drive," he said the moment the inspector rolled down the window. "With you at the wheel, the best we can hope for is to end up in a ditch."The Friday 56 is a fun meme to do hosted by Freda's Voice. If you'd like to join on the fun go to The Friday 56.Rules:*Grab a book, any book.*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.*Find any sentence that grabs you.*Post it.*Link it here."That's why you never land a girlfriend. You're hopeless."

Parma. A multiple pile-up occurs on the autostrada into the city. A truck transporting cattle skids off the road. Dozens of cows and bulls go on the rampage, injured and crazed. In the chaos, the burned body of a young woman is found at the side of the road. Her death has no apparent link to the carnage. Commissario Soneri is assigned the case. It is a welcome distraction: his mercurial lover Angela has decided to pursue other options, leaving him even more morose than usual. The dead woman is identified as Nina Iliescu, a Romanian immigrant whose beauty had enchanted a string of wealthy lovers. Temptress, muse, angel - she was all things to all men. Her murder conceals a crime and a sacrilege, and even in death she has a surprise waiting for Soneri.

This is definitely a new author for my list. Your lines and the synopsis, set the scene so definitively and when I checked out the 'Soneri' series on Fantastic Fiction, the three book covers seen together, set the seal on the deal for me!

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/valerio-varesi/

I can relate totally to your first answer about laughing out loud. Reasons to be that cheerful are in short supply right now and a little bit of someone doing something good for me, might be nice!

I always say when I first get up, that I will go back to bed once the kids are on the bus -- and then I never do. It seems such a luxury to do such a thing when everyone else is working. Then I promise I will go to bed early: nope. not that either. LOL